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September 10, 2009

Listen to Google Voice Messages in Gmail

Gmail Labs has a new feature, but it's only useful if you have a Google Voice account. When you receive a new voicemail, Google Voice sends an email notification that includes a transcription of the voicemail.

The problem is that you have to click on a link and open a new page to listen to the voicemail. If you enable "Google Voice player in mail" in Gmail Labs, you can play voicemails in Gmail.

"Best of all, your message status will stay synced: messages played from Gmail will appear as read in your Google Voice inbox and won't be played again when you check new messages via your phone," explains the Gmail blog.

Absolutely agree with kmohr25 above. Google Voice should be unified with GMail. There is no reason to have a separate interface. At the same time, Google Voice should be integrated with GTalk. Make this happen ASAP Google!

I think we are on the same wavelength because I have been saying the same thing about Google Talk as well. Users should be able to pick up calls from Google Talk on their PC as well as from a phone (aka their Gmail should ring).

This is great and works well in chrome except we need a plugin that you can click on a telephone number and it will call your phone and the person you are calling. Someone wrote a great plugin for firefox.. now we need one for chrome